Rings with a twist

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On Wed, 7 Aug 1996 14:33:17 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:


>> the beard started out as a rebellious thing.
>
>Beards have been around for millenia.  Who knows how they started out?


Thats easy! International conspiracy to sell shaving cream and throw
away razors.

>I'm not sure what the work place has to do with holiness.  Here at
>Central Data, half the people wear shorts, almost everyone uses vulgar
>language, only a very few attend a church of any type...

See thats weird. Among professionals around here, vulgar language is
frowned on..

Im actually not sure about profanity (though we had this one out
before and I got thoroughly trashed as you may remember).. Im about to
seek time for a study asserting that profanity and vulgarity is not
inherently universal in language, but is a cultural additive.

Serious. Imagine the furor over that :)

>The (U.S.) military tradition of shaved head and no facial hair started
>out because of serious lice problems in the trench warfare of the Civil
>War and WWI.  The Navy has pretty much always allowed facial hair.  The
>Air Force currently allows facial hair (last I saw, anyway).  The
>practices of other nations' military forces will, of course, vary.

So, you like lice ? Lemme tell you ...  :)  Oh, yeah .. having lice is
also a social stigma. Kids who get sent home for lice are stigmatized
by the others. Watched it happen in Christian school. Amusing if you
disregard the hurt feelings.

-mwb